Prescrição e utilização de equipamentos de proteção individual (EPI) em atividades com exposição a produtos químicos cancerígenos, mutagênicos e reprotóxicos (CMR): pesquisa-ação pluridisciplinar em uma fábrica francesa de decoração para móveis

Abstract

The question of the effectiveness of the risk prevention measures related to the use of CMR chemicals represents high challenges in terms of the health of the workers exposed to them. In most cases, prevention measures are limited to the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), although the regulation favours collective protective equipment (CPE). Constraints related to wearing PPE are generally known: discomfort in the movements, thermal discomfort, inadequate forms, premature wear and tear. The originality of the work to be presented in this article is to articulate the necessary knowledge about the dangers of the products, the PPE prescription modalities by the company and the workers’ risk perception of their effects on their body and of the PPE’s effectiveness. This work as a case study emerges from a transdisciplinary approach based on ergonomics, according to the Ergotoxicology approach, and on Anthropology.

Keywords

• prevention of chemical risks
• representation of risks
• ergotoxicology
• anthropology of risks